Kyle Bohem is ending up drawing attention to himself quite a lot lately. Now, Polaris has decided to strip him of his heavyweight Polaris title as a result of comments about the Holocaust he made on Instagram.
10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu black belt and top competitor Kyle Boehm needed up without his Polaris Heavyweight world title after commenting on NBA player Kyrie Irving’s post on Instagram in regards to the Holocaust.
Kyle Boehm denied the Holocaust in a post from Irving where the NBA player apologized for unintentionally posting an anti-semitic documentary “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” which landed him in trouble.
Bohem’s claimed in his comment that the Holocaust was a hoax, replying to one person on the comments thread:
“That’s the truth, it didn’t happen”, and following that up with a reply to another person “it’s a hoax.”
While everyone is entitled to their opinion, Polaris seems to employ a zero-tolerance policy for behavior like this and have decided to strip Kyle Boehm of his Polaris title following his comments.
A story on the official Polaris Instagram account stated that:
“We were recently made aware of comments made by Kyle Boehm on social media that are not in line with Polaris’ code of ethics.
In response to Boehm’s actions, we have stripped him of his Polaris title and he will not be invited to compete for our promotion again.”
Just recently Kyle Boehm accused the former Danaher Death Squad, and now the New Wave Jiu-Jitsu team of fixing matches in some of the biggest professional BJJ events, by doing fake close-out matches, and denying other athletes a real chance at winning something.
Bohem’s latest grappling performance was at EBI 20: the Absolutes, where he lost for the first time ever in the Eddie Bravo Invitational to B-Team’s Nick Rodriguez via a rear-naked choke in overtime.
